I have restarted my Cain's Jawbone study group. In 2024 we completed analysing one third of the book, then took a break over Christmas.We're doing a re-cap for a couple of meetings before getting back into analysing new pages. Is anyone else trying to solve this? #CainsJawbone

My Winter reading project just arrived

I cannot wait to start, though the original Cain's Jawbone remains unsolved by me

Today I learned #JohnFinnemore and #JohnMitchinson are scheduled for a #CainsJawbone discussion and book signing for _The Researcher's First Murder_ on Charing Cross Road, in London. I offered my beloved long-time pal in #Islington a reimbursement for ticket if he attends and gets a book signed for me.

Strange to me that I encounter only one question about #crypticCrossword elements in the social media discussions for #CainsJawbone, the people in videos I watched and the "confirmed solvers" don't mention them, but a link to a guide to solving is in a 'pinned' selection of useful resources I've encountered numerous elements (the UK crosswords use more devices than the North American cryptics I have seen) and I am only 11 pages in.

So into #CainsJawbone, although only seven pages in. I can see the utility of a spreadsheet. I even dreamed I had a voice chat with a friend who began reading it earlier this month.

I love my #UK pen pals but I dearly wish at least one of them knew about this book years earlier and told me, and not left me to wade deep into a #Wodehouse novel to learn about #Torquemada.

Six Books You’ll (Probably) Never Be Able to Read

As headlines have been informing us recently, censorship is very much alive and well across the United States—but there’s a difference between a book you’re not allowed to read and one you simply can’t read. The subset of non-censored reading material out there that actively seems to dare readers to make any sense of it is deep and vast. From codices to puzzles to straight-up art projects, books that aren’t meant to be read (or are essentially impossible to read) present the bibliophile with a true conundrum: Just how hard should you have to work to read and enjoy a book?

Here, then, are six publications that you’re free to try to track down, but which have a seriously select group of readers nonetheless…

#Book #Books #Reading #Bookstodon #ONEPIECE #IlanManouach #FinnegansWake #JamesJoyce #TheVoynichManuscript #TheFutureLibrary
#CainsJawbone #EdwardPowysMathers

https://www.tor.com/2023/08/23/six-books-youll-probably-never-be-able-to-read/

Referenced link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-cant-solve-this-famous-murder-mystery-puzzle1/
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-cant-solve-this-famous-murder-mystery-puzzle1/

Originally posted by Scientific American / @sciam: http://nitter.platypush.tech/kennaculture/status/1649438341245599745#m

RT by @sciam: My #oped #article in @SciAm asks if the murder mystery book #cainsjawbone can be solved with #AI. Thanks to @Unbounders and @Zindi, @rina_gill, and @AmyFlorida626 for trying to solve the case!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-cant-solve-this-famous-murder-mystery-puzzle1/
TY also to @sophiebushwick and @meghas!

#cainsjawbone day 2

Day 1 was a daunting. Nothing made sense and the first dozen pages were just, well, strange.

However, I’ve done some reading and have a plan of action and understand how to crack this now. Figure out the narrators, cluster, solve the puzzles and then the stories should start to make some sense.

Maybe.

Learning more and more each day and for this week I’ll just read and take notes.

#CainsJawbone here I come!

Don’t fancy my chances of solving it, but gonna be fun trying.

#puzzle
#imreadingthebook

Meeting with my bookish group tomoz. We’re are trying to solve #CainsJawbone. I haven’t looked at our work for at least 3 months. We’re going on a road trip to Flywheel, I may or may not end up with another fountain pen, notebook and ink! Goodnight!!! #Stationery #NewNorfolk #RoadTrip

Cain's jawbone puzzle book, here I come !

Attempting Cain's Jawbone was one of the most infuriating, maddening, wonderful and rewarding things I've ever tried to do, so I whooped with pure joy to get this email! If anyone is thinking of trying, yes it's very difficult, and yes it's completely worth it... #cainsjawbone

What does it mean when a book has tons of 5 star reviews, but they all say variants of "I can't wait to read this!!"?

Anyone else working on solving #CainsJawbone ? Here with my loyal literary assistant who is mildly concerned about the meaning of Lapsang tea on page 17… but mostly annoyed I won’t let her eat the eraser on my pencil #catsofmastodon #sphinx

I need help on my #CainsJawbone quest!

There is a narrator — likely a dog — who frequently mistakes common words/names for food items. For example, he mistakes the name Browning for a brand of gravy.

On one page, a narrator I believe to be the same dog refers to a detective named Wellington Crisp "and his assistant and bulldog."

Does anyone have ANY idea what detective (fictional or real) PRIOR TO 1934 may have had a similar sounding name to this?
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